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Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics

The CSHPM 2014 Annual Meeting in St. Catharines, Ontario

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Maria Zack

    1. Mathematical, Information and Computer Sciences, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, USA

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  2. Elaine Landry

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of California, Davis, DAVIS, USA

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  • Contains rigorously reviewed scholarly works on the history and philosophy of mathematics from a variety of time periods and cultures
  • Contributions are written by the leading scholars in the field
  • Will be accessible to anyone with a general interest in mathematics, not just students and academics

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Table of contents (13 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Falconer’s Cryptology

    • C. F. Rocca Jr.
    Pages 1-13

  3. Is Mathematics to Be Useful? The Case of de la Hire, Fontenelle, and the Epicycloid

    • Christopher Baltus
    Pages 15-22

  4. The Rise of “the Mathematicals”: Placing Maths into the Hands of Practitioners—The Invention and Popularization of Sectors and Scales

    • Joel S. Silverberg
    Pages 23-50

  5. Early Modern Computation on Sectors

    • Amy Ackerberg-Hastings
    Pages 51-61

  6. The Eighteenth-Century Origins of the Concept of Mixed-Strategy Equilibrium in Game Theory

    • Nicolas Fillion
    Pages 63-78

  7. Reassembling Humpty Dumpty: Putting George Washington’s Cyphering Manuscript Back Together Again

    • Theodore J. Crackel, V. Frederick Rickey, Joel S. Silverberg
    Pages 79-96

  8. Natures of Curved Lines in the Early Modern Period and the Emergence of the Transcendental

    • Bruce J. Petrie
    Pages 97-104

  9. Origins of the Venn Diagram

    • Deborah Bennett
    Pages 105-119

  10. Mathematics for the World: Publishing Mathematics and the International Book Trade, Macmillan and Co.

    • Sylvia Marie Nickerson
    Pages 121-137

  11. The Influence of Arthur Cayley and Alfred Kempe on Charles Peirce’s Diagrammatic Logic

    • Francine F. Abeles
    Pages 139-148

  12. Émile Borel et Henri Lebesgue: HPM

    • Roger Godard
    Pages 149-159

  13. The Judicial Analogy for Mathematical Publication

    • R. S. D. Thomas
    Pages 161-170

  14. History and Philosophy of Mathematics at the 1924 International Mathematical Congress in Toronto

    • David Orenstein
    Pages 171-192
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This volume contains thirteen papers that were presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques, held on the campus of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It contains rigorously reviewed modern scholarship on general topics in the history and philosophy of mathematics, as well as on the meeting’s special topic, Early Scientific Computation. These papers cover subjects such as 
•Physical tools used by mathematicians in the seventeenth century 
•The first historical appearance of the game-theoretical concept of mixed-strategy equilibrium 
•George Washington’s mathematical cyphering books 
•The development of the Venn diagram 
•The role of Euler and other mathematicians in the development of algebraic analysis 
•Arthur Cayley and Alfred Kempe’s influence on Charles Peirce's diagrammatic logic 
•The influence publishers had on the development of mathematical pedagogy in the nineteenth century 
•A description of the 1924 International Mathematical Congress held in Toronto, told in the form of a “narrated slide show” Written by leading scholars in the field, these papers will be accessible to not only mathematicians and students of the history and philosophy of mathematics, but also anyone with a general interest in mathematics.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Mathematical, Information and Computer Sciences, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, USA

    Maria Zack

  • Department of Philosophy, University of California, Davis, DAVIS, USA

    Elaine Landry

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